Devendra Kumar Sharma, President of ICOLD and former Chairman, Bhakra Beas Management Board, shares his thoughts on the role ...

After decades of planning and years of construction, Northern Colorado’s Chimney Hollow Dam is nearly complete. Construction crews topped off the 350-foot-tall dam recently and are preparing to pave a ...

Human engineering appears to have moved the planet, literally. According to new research published this month, the global boom in dam construction over the past two centuries has caused measurable ...

Wending its way from the Olympic Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Washington’s Elwha River is now free. For about century, the Elwha and Gilnes Canyon Dams corralled these waters. Both have ...

Dams have been emblematic of the World Bank's approach to development for many decades. From the bank's early years in the 1960s and 1970s, large-scale infrastructure projects such as dams, power ...

AP — Communities just downstream of California’s Lake Oroville dam would not receive adequate warning or time for evacuations if the 770-foot-tall dam itself — rather than its spillways — were to ...

A small 6-foot-tall dam in Woods Creek that Snohomish PUD bought from a private energy company last year for $1.1 million. Credit: Dan Bates, the Daily Herald in Everett, Washington Thanks partly to ...